An Open Email Response to Dr. Brannon

Dr. Brannon...like you'll ever see this, given the state of modern American politics...even with one as wonderfully apolitical as you are..or at least have been.  If I had any money, I'd send you money, even if it were only that five measly dollars for which you're asking and which you're assuming that every North Carolinian has...after all, it's just five measly dollars.  It's nothing!  Five dollars used to be something, Doctor.  I remember when $5 bought me five lunch specials at Jack's Steak House through my senior year in high school.  I remember when five dollars filled up my push button transmission Dodge Dart station wagon and fueled me for a week.  I remember when $5 was considered a BIG tip when I was serving food and beverage in a 'high dollar' restaurant, working through college.  I remember when $5 would buy two cartons of North Carolina grown, manufactured and marketed cigarettes AND a meal at North Carolina start-up Hardee's.   

I remember when $5 would buy a fine, freshly carved filet mignon at Burlington's finest, fancy-pants steak house.  And portraying a time that I myself cannot remember, I remember an episode of The Waltons,  late in the series, where John contracted his service as a hunting guide for some rich Yankee for a new, crisp five dollar bill.  That evening, he sat the family down in a semi-circle and slowly panned that bill in front of everybody.  The looks of wonder, amazement and awe on every face, from little Elizabeth to Gramma Esther, looking upon Honest Abe's countenance on the face of that piece of currency might, might, MIGHT be achieved in the modern day with a Madison, but Lincoln doesn't do it anymore...

....unless you have a whole LOT of Abes.  Which I don't.  I have one in my pocket, along with a couple of quarters and a penny....talk about a Lincoln that buys NOTHING anymore!  As much as I support you in this race, I'm not giving you either of them.  I'm hoping to hang on to them to put with a few more this first Friday of 2014, when I get my part time pay to give to my grocer, my gasoline purveyor, the landlady, Ma Bell, the electric co-op....   

I will vote for you.   I'll talk you up wherever and whenever possible, like at the  round table of ''The Meeting of the Mayors Pro Tem'.  I'll promote you in my blog.  I'll pen and perform in radio and television spots for you.  You see, Doc, I AM the face and voice of North Carolina and what has become of it due to the policies and practices of the baseborn bolshevik buffoon and his fellow travelers Harry Reed, etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., etc., and Kay Hagan, and the many, including Abraham Lincoln, who preceded them, making them possible.

I know that presently you can't presume a race with Kay, as your present predicament is winning the primary election against Tillis, or whichever professional party political hack the establishment Raleigh Repulsicans anoint and throw at you and us.

Of course, that raises the eternal question that should be asked of any office seeker, especially during his or her first time trying.... "Doctor Brannon, if elected on your platform of conservative individualism, what assurances do we have that you're not just going to become another pusillanimous, prevaricating, promise breaking, professional political party putz, like Nurse Ellmers seems to be doing and as most every politician, including Honest Abe, has done over the course the past two centuries?"

                             

It's Time To Call A Spade A Spade

Last year, I had grand dreams of men and women of honesty, integrity, intelligence, accomplishment and achievement leading our government into a future reflective of our history.  It would have been a time of returned prosperity and posterity, inventiveness and entrepreneurialism  and  all empowering Americanism.
                     
                                
         

But, my dream was squashed by the continuing nightmare of my country being ruled by a bunch of bumble- headed, brain dead bolsheviks and simplistic socialists, whose only accomplishments are their lying, cheating, thieving, shucking and jiving, murderous, treasonous, thuggish ganstaism.  They will continue to give us (US) ruinous poverty and depravity; idiocy, ignorance and insolence, and crushing and killing communism.  
                      
     

We might as well be being 'led' by these thuggish murderers and murderous thugs.



All I can think is that I hope that I die soon, because I do NOT want to witness these clowns of color murder my country.

Greensboro Detests Disc Golf

My birth city of Greensboro has been gravely disappointing over the years...the Sit-ins, the Klan Nazi Shooting, which should have been labeled The Nazi Communist Shooting...but Greensboro's lack of understanding and appreciation for our sport of disc golf is grievous

There was a pretty cool little 18 hole course at Bryan Park in the early '80's.  I discovered it quite by accident when I lived in Brown Summit, after moving back to NC from LA, where I learned the sport playing Steady Ed's Hahamongna  and La Mirada in the 70's with only a dirt brown Aero with a pending patent number.  The course at Bryan Park was literally bulldozed and pushed over a cliff.  I recently heard from a source who should know that that was done at the bequest of the man for whom the park is named.
After we and others created, designed and built Johnson Street in High Point in 1992, my primary playing partner and I, as newly elected officers of the newly founded players' association/club, TADGA, approached the city of Greensboro about putting a course at their Hagan Stone Park.  They offered the property on E. Vandalia, which consisted of a gymnasium building and a tangled forest/jungle. Five years later, some local players got Greensboro to allow them to buy and install baskets and those crappy little cylinders at Barber Park, of all places.  Now, 15 years later, it is still the same, with no improvements or design tweaks, both of which are seriously needed and warranted.  About seven or eight years ago, a $10 million bond referendum for the park allocated $39,900 to the disc golf course.  All I've ever seen spent on the course were some REALLY crappy little plastic tee marker signs that lasted about a week and a half.
I had and have no problems with the millions already spent on replacing the collapsed roof of the Simkins Center, the technical improvements of the amphitheatre stage, or the building of new shelters and the sprayground and playground.  I have absolutely no problem with their scrapping the plans for building cement, stadium style seating for the amphitheatre and for the three on three basketball courts where the practice baseball field and hole number 14 are.  I have no problem with the construction of a nice, state of the art community center with expansive dining and kitchen facilities.  I do have problems with it being built right where number 14 is, as that is the best hole on the course and one of the best I've ever seen or played.  I have no problem with GPD's only request of building a second road in/out of the park, off Florida Street, right across from where English Street T intersects Florida.  I do have a problem with it coming across the field in such a way so as to destroy the baseball practice field and dozens, scores, hundreds of old growth, mature trees, when it should be built along the other side of the field, where a road bed already exists, where one, maybe two trees would have to be felled and the 14 basket could simply be moved 60 feet or so to the left to the middle of the field.  My biggest problem with the Barber Park Master Plan is the taxpayer raping seven figure expenditure for a fancy pants, highfalutin office/maintenance building to be built where holes 2 and 3 are.  That's where the community center should go.  The present office/maintenance facilities should be improved as actual, technical need dictates, but an entirely new structure should not be built, just so Barber Park's handful of employees can have fancy new digs.  In any event, the disc course is going to be relegated to the stinky sewer line/Buffalo Creek  swampland/jungle/forest, if it survives at all, with its allocated funds going somewhere else...probably into some bureaucrats' and/or politicians' pockets.
As for Keeley Park.  I'll be a dead old man before Keeley Disc Golf is ever born.   That's probably just as well, because the design I see on that park's master plan is tree killing crapola that doesn't utilize any of the grand, picturesque open area along the two power tower runs or the only real body of water in that area of the park.
The final word is, that Greensboro continues to fall behind and trail most every other NC city in disc golf development, as it does in so many areas of endeavor.
But, have hope and take heart, local discers.  My ancestral home county of Alamance might yet be persuaded to make Rock Creek a permanent course at Cedarock Park, in addition to their plans for a new 9 hole beginners' course there.  That would rival the 81 holes of golf in High Bridge, WI and perhaps let Cedarock regain its former #1 ranking as best disc golf park in America.     And there is talk of installing a "players' course" at Burlington's Springwood Park in the Whitsett community featuring two 1000'+ holes.  Burlington's Parks & Rec Director seems very optimistic, enthusiastic and encouraging about it.

It's Time for Some Tart Truth

Mark Twain said that a well told lie, told over and over again will have more credence than the truth.  I think that he shorted the statement by not going on to say "with the dumb masses."  And America today is filled with and full of dumb masses.  Look at recent election winners to see that premise as truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
So, to all of you dumb mass ghetto Gumps and trailer park trash, let me share some truth with you.
While it is generally true that all politicians are perpetual prevaricators, Baracka Hussein Obama and his Demoncat and Dummycrap devotees are the epitome of proper prevarication.  And since I know that you're too stupid and/or ignorant to know what that means, I'll tell you that it means that he and they are LIARS.  B. Hussein is first and foremost a lying, cheating, thieving, conniving, shyster, charlatan Chicagoland lawyer with a lost law license.  Any attorney who is SO bad, so as to lose his or her law license, like Bill Clinton, is an ultimate liar
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Worse than Hussein's hoodwinkery is the Repulsicans' refusal to stand up and say out loud what a baseborn, bolshevik buffoon, bald faced liar Obama is. Simply because he's Negroid, the truth can't be uttered out loud about him.  John Bonehead, John McCain't make up his mind if he's liberal or conservative, Lindsay Gramnesty, Mitch McConfused about his mission, Eric Can't make up his mind, either, or any of the others won't dare publicly proclaim that OBAMA IS A LIAR AND A THIEF, as well as a Marxist Muslim.

Maybe the newly appointed senator from South Carolina will have the chutzpah to tell the truth about Obama, since he can't be labeled as a racist, though I'm sure he'd be called an Uncle Tom.